Credit Controller - Full or Part Time

Activate Learning are recruiting for a Credit Controller to join our Finance team based at City of Oxford College.

You will be responsible for ensuring any overdue debt is chased on a regular basis, and queries dealt with swiftly. This role will also require allocating payments received, ensuring invoices and credits are checked and raised in a timely manner, processing direct debit collection runs and administering refunds when required.

You will be dealing with student or commercial queries, which will require you to work, and build relationships, with various members of the activate learning communities, whilst working to improve the debt position and ensure effective collection of amounts due to the organisation, which currently encompasses seven colleges.

You will develop excellent relationships with all internal and external stakeholders and deal with learners tactfully and appropriately, along with liaising with the relevant departments to resolve any outstanding debt related queries.

What do you need to be successful in this role?

The successful candidate will have experience in either a credit control or customer service role, with excellent attention to detail.

You will have the ability to work with and identify improvements to financial information and administrative systems, as well as analyse, interpret and manage data, without close supervision. You will have excellent IT skills, including strong knowledge of Word and Excel, and have an ability to work independently and with a positive attitude.

What are the benefits of this role?

You will join an established Finance team on a permanent, full time basis, working 08:30 - 17:00, 37 hours a week, with a 16:30 finish on a Friday. Job share will also be considered, please note on your application form your working hours, if part time. The role offers hybrid working, an opportunity to support with student or commercial debt and the potential to earn up to GBP25,461 per annum depending on skills and experience.

There really is no limit in terms of your personal growth, development and career by joining one of the largest Education Providers in the UK. You will have a comprehensive development programme as part of induction together with peer to peer learning, a formal development plan and support at every step of the way to set you up for success. We have a close-knit community of experts and leaders across the Group who support the sharing of best practice and encourage individual growth.

What are the benefits of working for Activate Learning Group?

At Activate Learning, we see our employees as individuals, empowering them to make the right choices for their ambitions and careers. We value our people as vital to our continued success and aspire to a diverse, open and inclusive environment that provides the motivation for everyone to pursue their career goals and flourish.

When you work for Activate Learning, you're working for an organisation that provides you with the advantages of a large employer, a trusted partner in your career development, and a transformational way of working whilst also investing in building a community environment for everyone. Together, we will bring out the best version of yourself.

We reward our employees with generous annual leave entitlements, access to training and development, excellent pension scheme, travel subsidies - bus and train, cycle scheme, the option of applying for a NUS card (discount card for various shopping), and Employee Assistance Programme.

Applications are reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview, appoint and close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive.

We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application form.

Activate Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check at the appropriate level.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.

Applications are encouraged from all candidates meeting or exceeding the minimum criteria for the role regardless of age, disability, gender, orientation, race, religion or ethnicity.

Activate Learning are committed to employing people with disabilities and will ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. If you require any reasonable adjustments either at application or interview stage please contact the talent team directly.

If an agency submits an unsolicited CV to any partner or employee of our company, you should be aware that they have no authority to enter into an arrangement with you. Should we require recruitment agency involvement, we will contact the agencies on our preferred suppliers list, and we would ask that you respect the relationships we have already built with these suppliers.